291: Chapter 291 You Eat the Space, I'll Dig Out Your Coordinates

The black trace crossed the spatial scale.

The available capacity of the positioning column continued to decrease.

Zero point seven one.

Zero point seven two.

Tang Qiqi stood in front of the testing platform without reaching out to dismantle the outer shell.

The toolbox closed, and she slapped the lockdown button.

The alloy sluice gate dropped.

The red alert lights covered the B2 testing area.

"Housekeeper Su."

She uploaded the equipment logs, operation records, and contamination footage together.

"It doesn't eat electricity; it eats space."

"Applying for the highest-level spatial contamination disposal."

Su Xiaonuan connected to the monitoring system.

She first verified the time, then checked Tang Qiqi's operation records.

Backup energy shut down.

Personnel evacuated.

Pollutants not contacted.

Reporting process complete.

"Those three hundred contribution points weren't deducted in vain."

Tang Qiqi twitched the corner of her mouth.

"Can we not mention the three hundred right now?"

"Yes."

Su Xiaonuan raised her hand and swiped across the permission terminal.

[All spatial anchoring devices of Tiangong No. 1 are frozen.]

[The B2 research level has entered a sealed state.]

[Suspension of personnel and material transmission.]

[Spatial contamination disposal Rank: Highest.]

The spatial interfaces of the warehouse, agricultural zone, and mecha production line all turned red.

Lin Yuan's Dimensional Space was singled out and included in the highest protection sequence.

Two security teams sealed off the passage.

The technical team conducted tests across the protective screen.

The backup battery was dismantled.

The crystal core power supply was cut off.

The Mental Energy connection dropped to zero.

The black trace was still crawling.

Every time it crossed a scale grid, the internal capacity decreased by 0.01 cubic meters.

Tang Qiqi asked the technician to restart the equipment.

The energy ring lit up, and the spatial data was reloaded. The consumed capacity did not return.

She marked three sets of records.

"Permanent loss."

"However much it consumes, the equipment loses that much."

No one answered in front of the control console.

Power outage, isolation, clearing energy.

The three common disposal methods were completely ineffective.

The engineer in charge of Materials processing raised the cutting arm.

"Applying to strip the outer shell."

Tang Qiqi stared at the position of the black trace.

"Only cut the outer layer."

The mechanical arm fell.

The positioning column shell and the coordinate motherboard were separated, and the two parts were sent into independent trays.

The black trace originally attached to the inner wall split into two.

One on the shell.

One on the motherboard.

The two traces crossed the scale at the same time.

The capacity decrease speed doubled.

"Stop!"

Tang Qiqi cut off the mechanical arm, raised two isolation boxes, and stored the parts separately.

"Cancel subsequent cutting."

She pulled out the before-and-after data and slapped it on the main screen.

"Cut once, open one more coordinate."

"Cut a few more times, and B2 can open a chain store for it."

Su Xiaonuan deleted all dismantling plans.

"The technical team retreats."

"Only observe, do not touch."

Inside the two isolation boxes, the black traces maintained the same movement rhythm.

Wang Xue had just walked into the control area when her body hit the edge of the platform.

She grabbed the frame, her breath suppressed into her throat.

A spatial door split open beside the wall.

The entrance lost control and expanded to six meters.

The Small World appeared before everyone's eyes.

A corner of the scorched earth area in the first-phase farmland was missing.

The irrigation pipe was broken in the middle with a smooth cut. Half of the isolation wall was missing, and a piece of land behind the wall was also dug away.

There was no broken soil on the ground.

There was no collapse below.

That patch of space, along with the things inside, vanished together.

Wang Xue pressed her temples.

"The equipment is not broken."

"A piece of my world is missing."

Jiang Yun swiped her wristband.

[Small World Secondary Defense Permission Activated.]

"Stop irrigation."

"Personnel on the periphery of the maternal seed repository evacuate."

"All maintenance teams go out by number, carrying soil and tools is prohibited."

She stepped into the spatial door, and the Green Lotus Fire spread against the soles of her shoes, carving out an evacuation passage.

Su Muxue and Xia Qingqiu rushed to Ma Chao's node.

The backup nutrient tank was pushed onto the transport rack. Ma Chao's remaining root system rolled back against the soil layer, and every vine shrank near the tank body.

"It didn't walk along the ridges."

Ma Chao hugged the nutrient tube, teeth clashing against the tube wall.

"Nor did it touch the fire."

"It bypassed it along the edge of the space."

Xia Qingqiu pressed the interface of the nutrient tank.

Su Muxue cut off the plant connection and put the exposed roots into a sealed bag.

The previous incineration had cut off the connection between the contamination and the living body.

The spatial boundary still left a path for it.

Wang Xue's waist and back pressed against the control console, and the spatial door began to tremble.

Su Xiaonuan looked at her.

"Can it be closed?"

"Yes."

Wang Xue raised her face, but she supported the door frame back into its original position.

"If I close the door now, the people inside won't be able to come out."

"Clear the people first."

"Then we'll talk about my space."

Su Xiaonuan adjusted the evacuation list.

Maternal seed maintenance team is priority.

Technicians second batch.

Ma Chao culture tank third batch.

Jiang Yun stayed inside the door, checking zone by zone. Every time a person came out, she crossed off a number on her wristband.

The spatial gap was still expanding.

Wang Xue's mental load increased accordingly.

[Mental Load: Sixty-one percent.]

[Mental Load: Seventy-four percent.]

[Mental Sea stability continues to decline.]

When Lin Yuan walked into B2, the last maintenance team was passing through the entrance.

He did not approach the isolation boxes.

"Qiqi, three sets of curves."

Tang Qiqi brought up the positioning column capacity, the Small World land loss, and Wang Xue's mental load.

The three lines were superimposed on the main screen.

The turning points fell on the exact same second.

The time when the positioning column was dragged by the contaminated vines was also added to the chart.

The four nodes connected into a line.

Lin Yuan looked at the two black traces.

"The positioning column is just an exit."

"The main body is still in the scorched earth area."

He raised his hand and pointed at Wang Xue's data.

"It opened a door outward by borrowing the anchoring equipment, and then locked the coordinates along her bond with the Small World."

"The space consumed by the equipment is all deducted from her Small World."

Su Xiaonuan sealed off the remaining interfaces of the research level.

Spatial anchoring equipment, Dimensional Space warehouse invocation terminals, and mental transmission lines all entered physical lockdown.

Tang Qiqi recalculated the missing volume.

The 0.7 cubic meters did not dissipate.

Every piece of disappearing data was converging toward the same location.

She superimposed the loss amount onto the Small World map.

Beneath the scorched earth area, a black dot that had never been registered in the original map appeared.

After the black dot swallowed the first piece of space, its diameter increased.

Every time the two black traces moved one grid, the black dot expanded by a circle.

Tang Qiqi magnified the coordinates.

"I found you."

She wrote the name on the map.

[Zero Coordinate.]

"The space was not moved away."

"The consumed parts were all compressed into here, and the value returned to zero."

"Every time the black trace is copied, an opening leading to the Zero Coordinate will appear."

Jiang Yun connected the Small World real-time map to the main screen.

Wang Xue supported the control console, forcibly stabilizing her mental coordinates.

The scorched earth area lit up.

The maternal seed repository lit up.

Ma Chao's node lit up.

The spatial core appeared in the center of the map.

A black line extended from the scorched earth gap, moving forward along the spatial boundary. It bypassed the Green Lotus Fire isolation zone and passed through the spatial core area.

Su Xiaonuan created a new file.

[Event Name: Spatial Return-to-Zero Contamination.]

[Contamination Core: Zero Coordinate.]

[Transmission Method: Spatial Exit Replication.]

[Current Threat Target: Confirming.]